14UNDERSTANDING AND INSPECTING WIRELESS NETWORKS
The ability to scan for and connect to other network devices from your system is crucial to becoming a successful hacker, and with wireless technologies like Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) and Bluetooth being the standard, finding and controlling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections is key. If someone can hack a wireless connection, they can gain entry to a device and access to confidential information. The first step, of course, is to learn how to find these devices.
In Chapter 3, we looked at some basic networking commands in Linux, including some of the fundamentals of wireless networking, with a promise of ...
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